As a result of your query for the available chat rooms on a server, a list will appear like this:

Now select the room where you wish to enter.

Press next -> go to step 6.

6. Joining Chat Room

The final screen will allow you to connect to the chatroom - you will need to type your password:

You can receive the history of the messages from the room before you enter it. If you leave this unchecked you will only receive the messages sent after you are connected.

If you want to receive the history, you can specify a period (in minutes) for the recorded messages. For instance, in the illustrated example, I only want to see the last 30 minutes of the discussion.

And now you can happily chat away:

This is the way to find and connect to a chat room using the "Join Chat Room Wizard". But after you've been trough the process and found a chat room you want to come back to, you can simply use the following...

Shortcut to Chat Room

Save Chat Room in Contact List

Once you've found your chat room(s) of choice, in order to spare yourself the trouble of entering it "the long way", you can add it in your contact list.

Just press the

"Add contact" button and from now on you can connect to the chat room just double-clicking its name in the roster.

The saved contact will appear like this in your contact list (in the next image, the hover box also appears):

Screenshots are from YateClient 4.0 version.

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